Yemen

UN: 12 Millions Yemenis May Face Worst Famine in 100 Years

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2018-10-16 12:18:29

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12 million people -- or two in five people -- could die from starvation and could face the “worst famine in the world in 100 years” if US-Saudi aggression continues in the country, the World Food Program (WFP) said Monday.

More than 15,000 people have already been killed in the war, thousands of others have been wounded, and millions have been displaced since the US-Saudi aggression began bombing the country in 2015.

As the war rages, especially around the major port city of Hudaydah, and the economic situation deteriorates, the WFP said it feared millions struggling to make ends meet in the poorest Arab country would succumb to severe hunger and disease.

"If this situation persists, we could see an additional 3.5 million severely insecure Yemenis... who urgently require regular food assistance to prevent them from slipping into famine-like conditions," WFP spokesman Herve Verhoosel noted.

Verhoosel regretted that the aggression’s siege on Yemen, particularly its Hudaydah port, is preventing WFP workers from reaching its 51,000 tons of wheat stocks at the Red Sea Mills facility. The WFP official says the stocks are enough to feed 3.7 million people in northern and central Yemen for one month.

In June 13, the US-Saudi aggression launched an offensive on Hodeidah, through which flows almost 80 percent of Yemen’s imports, despite international warnings that it would compound the impoverished nation’s humanitarian crisis.

The US-Saudi aggression invaded Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a former regime that had resigned amid popular discontent but had been loyal to Riyadh. It also imposed siege on the country leading to the worst humanitarian crisis.

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